this tree that's supporting me, and the energy from it feels male. it's a few hundred years old. whatevertree, plant, that your eyes alight upon, there is that thing acknowledging you and saying hello. if you ignore them, thatjust means that you need more time. so, more time you spend in nature, the more you tune in, the better you develop your understanding of the language that she's speaking to you. people that i met when it was a national park often didn't know much about the tuhoe tribe, or our indigenous ancestry. children of the mist. the retreat was born out